International

The MU International Office is the first point of contact for international students applying for full-degree, Erasmus, Study Abroad, and Summer School programmes, and supports MU students who wish to study abroad.

The Library has access to over 200 databases, 714,000 e-journals and 550,000 ebooks. To read electronic resources off campus, login using '' Off-Campus Login ". Copyright of the journals is owned by the Publisher except as noted otherwise on individual articles. No material from the online journals may be substantially or systematically reproduced, re-engineered, redistributed, resold or sub-licenced in any way; no part of the journals may be supplied or distributed to an unauthorised user. Some journals are only available in print.

To access Maynooth University ePrint and eTheses Archive please click here. An ePrint is an electronic copy of an academic paper. ePrints can be either preprints (a working paper or the version of a paper submitted for peer review) or postprints (the final peer reviewed version, which has been accepted for publishing) or similar material such as book chapters, conference papers, working papers, technical reports and so on. Maynooth University ePrints Archive is an institutional repository of ePrints which showcases the research output of Maynooth University and St. Patrick's College staff and postgraduate students. This open access ensures the widest possible dissemination and impact for our work in Maynooth and contributes to the growing body of research literature that is now freely available online. Hardcopy Theses are listed in LibrarySearch.

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Our Kindles now have even more titles, more course work and more general reading available. You can borrow a kindle for one week from our Information Desk.

We will of course ensure that there are hardcopy versions available for students too, so if you can’t get your hands on a kindle, don’t despair! All Kindle titles will show up in the online catalogue, just like their hardcopy versions.

Remember - by using the Kindle, you can borrow multiple books for just one week loan. If you have any questions on the Kindles please contact Louise Saults in the Library.

A collection of regional, national and worldwide newspapers. The Library does subscribe to a small number of titles but most are freely available on the internet and a subscription may be needed for full access.

Subscriptions

It includes 48 national, regional and local publications taken directly from the extensive holdings of the British Library. Featuring key British newspapers selected from throughout the United Kingdom, it provides a comprehensive view of British and world news, culture and society during the 19th century.

It consists of digitised Irish news publications from 1763 onwards. It currently includes: the Freeman's Journal, Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, Irish Farmers Journal and some regional newspapers. Some of these titles are incomplete but further digitisation of these titles and the addition of new titles is ongoing.

1995 to current, with today's issue being loaded at 8am CET (Central European Time). Provides access to current articles in pdf format. Some content e.g. death notices, advertisements, supplements may be excluded.

UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK/Irish secondary education. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, etc. Reference book full-text coverage includes: The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides hundreds of thousands of photos, maps and flags.

1995 to current, with today's issue being loaded at 8am CET (Central European Time). Provides access to current articles in pdf format. Some content e.g. death notices, advertisements, supplements may be excluded.

UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK/Irish secondary education. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, etc. Reference book full-text coverage includes: The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides hundreds of thousands of photos, maps and flags.

UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines British & Irish sources (including: magazines, newspapers, and reference books) with international sources to create the most complete collection of full-text research publications for UK/Irish secondary education. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic, and many more. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail, etc. Reference book full-text coverage includes: The Columbia Encyclopedia, and many others. In addition, this database provides hundreds of thousands of photos, maps and flags.

Worldwide

Provides access to full-text Irish and worldwide newspaper articles. To find a list of newspapers by Country: Click on Sources, then Browse Sources. Select by Publication Type (1); Filter by Country (2); Select a category to view sources (3), click on News, then Newspapers. Select newspaper by clicking on box. To search that newspaper, click on OK Continue (far right, below Find a Source). To search across all newspapers, start by selecting Search and then Power Search.

UK/EIRE Reference Centre™ combines Irish, British & international sources to create a collection of full-text research publications. Magazine coverage includes full text of publications such as New Statesman, PC Magazine, National Geographic. Newspaper coverage includes full text of publications such as The Times (London), The Sun, The Daily Mail.

Open access (OA) refers to unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals, and also increasingly to book chapters or monographs.

Maynooth University Mandate
Maynooth University policy is that for all research and scholarly publications, which arise in whole or in part from research carried out at the University, and subject to the copyright and archiving policies of the publisher, the publication contents should be made available at the earliest possible date through the Maynooth University Open Access Repository. The Maynooth University policy has taken effect from 6 November, 2017 and will be reviewed no later than May 2022.

RIAN is the outcome of a sectoral higher education project supported by the Irish Government's 'Strategic Innovation Fund'. Project planning was carried out by the seven Irish university libraries, DCU, NUIG, Maynooth University, TCD, UCC, UCD, UL and was supported by the Irish Universities Association (IUA).

DART-Europe
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

DOAJ
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

DRIVER
The DRIVER infrastructure has now been merged with the OpenAIRE infrastructure www.openaire.eu to create a new platform able to support many more advanced services.

Open Access Library is an academic search engine and publisher. You can download research papers for free and submit your paper to it. It is a shared academic database. It is a handy tool which helps researchers performing their research and helps students with their studies.

OpenAIRE aims to support the implementation of Open Access in Europe. It provides the means to promote and realise the widespread adoption of the Open Access Policy, as set out by the ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access and the Open Access pilot launched by the European Commission.

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication.

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. To date OpenDoar includes over 2,000 repositories.

Sherpa/Romeo
Provides a searchable database of publishers’ copyright and selfarchiving policies for pre-prints and post-prints.

WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

RIAN is the outcome of a sectoral higher education project supported by the Irish Government's 'Strategic Innovation Fund'. Project planning was carried out by the seven Irish university libraries, DCU, NUIG, Maynooth University, TCD, UCC, UCD, UL and was supported by the Irish Universities Association (IUA).